THE CHINA MAIL I
CABBAGES AND KINGS
"Heard
about the
Scottish
twins
"No, what?"
"And
how miserable they
were?"
"Because they'd spent
"Why were they miserable?"
youth together."
Same To You
their
"It's not a thing I like to men- tion," said the doctor, "but your cheque's come back.'
"That's funny, So have my symptoms."
Wild Party
"What's yours, Claud?" said
a voice in the milk-bar.
"Oh, a chocolate shake." "And yours, Clarence?"
"A tomato glory."
"And yours, Derek?"
"Make mine plain mik, please ---I'm driving.”
Coming
"What a long time you take to answer the door, Bertha!”
“Ah missus, it's a long way from where you push the bell to where it's 'eard,”\
Adam.
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Chap. I
Financial Corner
According to a Berlin judre, thieves should pay income tax on any money they have stoken. It is, of course, dishonest of a burg- lar not to disclose his earnings.
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Beware
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Hallmarks
A sculptor has made a model. which will talk, sncer, and look cold or sarcastic.
Sounds like a model wife to `me.
Risky
"We saved our lives by cutting up our boots and eating them."
"Be quiet. You might give the landlady an idea."
Expensive
According to a statistician, the number of centenarians in Cape Town is decreasing. We urge our present crop of nonagenarians to be discreet and use the pedes- trian crossings.
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Got It?
"I saw the darlingest little hat in town to đây.”
"Do show me."
V. Chittenden, of the Kowloon Football Club bowls team, play ing in last Saturday's challenge match against Kowloon Tong, ("Mail" photo),
"It takes a lot of money bring out a debutante," says
social writer.
to
Yes, and also a lot to take one out.
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Insects Appeal
A scientist says that ants have a language of their own. Spelling bees are, of course, quite a com- monplace.
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The Joys of the Old Brigade "One age is the happiest period
of life," declares a novelist.
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Other Way Round
it
A business man says that took him 15 years before he could write a cheque for £10,000. Some business men, of course, write the cheque first and take the 15 years afterwards.
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Changed Measure
if
A woman' writer says that husbands were as liberal with their kisses after marriage as they were before, there would be fewer divorces. What used to be bushels are now just pecks.
Not Worth It
“In the event of a hostile air raid," says a writer, "some of the public statues would be the first things to suffer."
Even so, we're still in favour of peace.
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